Posted on 05/29/2007 3:53:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
Wake TFU!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
Once the amnesty program legalized all those folks, they quit doing the “jobs that Americans won’t do.” They got better jobs with better pay and benefits. better jobs.
This past week my 17 year old son who works at a buffet restaurant chain was told he couldn’t be promoted from dish washing to bakery. Why? Because all the other bakery workers only speak Spanish, so they can’t train him.
He got his first lesson in reverse discrimination.
“The recently announced bipartisan agreement on immigration reform....”
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I wish people would stop using that phrase or anything similar. It wasn’t an agreement — it was capitulation by our President and the rest of the RINOs.
And it’s hardly “immigration reform.”
Thank you for calling the Hacienda Blanco,
Por Espanol, marke uno......
I never thought I’d say this about a speech by the CIC; but where’s the BARF alert.
Well then, America will just need a buttload of more illegals to work sub-minimum wage jobs! That is why there are no real plans for enforcement after the amnesty - 1986 all over again.
Ask Chambliss if he really believes all that stuff in his letter, why he raised such a stink in 1998 to STOP workplace enforcement.
[snip]Inspections of Vidalia onion fields of Georgia in May 1998 brought a rebuke from then Rep. and now Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), who accused immigration officials of using “bullying tactics” to root out illegal workers. Today, Chambliss is a leader of the get-tough-on-illegal-immigration faction of the Republican party, and argues that the US needs to step up both border and interior enforcement.
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=1111_0_4_0
snip] Instead of being applauded for enforcing the law, the INS came under attack from Georgia’s congressional delegation. Georgia’s two senators and three of its House members, led by then-Sen. Paul Coverdell (R) and Rep. Jack Kingston (R), complained in a letter to Washington that the INS did not understand the needs of America’s farmers. The raids stopped.
Sen. Paul Coverdell condemned the INS for its “military-style” raid “against honest farmers,” calling it “an indiscriminate and inappropriate use of extreme enforcement tactics.”
He then insisted the INS not raid Georgia agricultural fields and crafted a ‘temporary work’ program for the state of Georgia with the INS that allowed undocumented workers to stay ‘legally’ in the U.S. The same has happened in other states like Oregon, and Washington at the insistence of their elected representatives.
Before that incident, the INS had been arresting and deporting almost 1,500 illegal immigrants a month. By 2003 workplace arrests of illegal immigrants for the entire year totaled 445. In 2004, just three businesses nationwide were fined for employing illegal immigrants. In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies.
The Macon Telegraph described the episode, “ Farmers and immigration officials came to terms on migrant labor issues Friday morning, ending the siege on Georgia’s sweet onion fields. But a storm of criticism from the state’s congressional delegation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s action is brewing on the horizon. Eight members of Congress signed an angry letter Friday afternoon to three of the Clinton administration’s top cabinet officers, blasting the INS for its timing”
Said Doris Meissner, INS commissioner from 1993 to 2000: “Those things affect an agency’s morale. You go out of your way to make it work, then it comes to nothing. Very demoralizing.”
Republican Rep. Jack Kingston has since stated “Employers in roofing and poultry and other areas will say, `Immigrants will work longer and harder,’ “ he said. Still, he has moved from being one of the 1998 defenders of the onion growers — “For us, it was just constituent work,” he said — to becoming an outspoken proponent of get-tough immigrant proposals.
Now, he said he believes businesses should be required to verify an employee’s legal status. He also is in favor of harsher penalties for employers who violate immigration laws.
He doesn’t, however, think such sanctions will be part of any new bill.
“The business lobby,” he said, “is too strong.”
Lobbyist and White house guru, Grover Norquist, a force behind the verification weakening, said: “The idea was that our job is to enforce the present rules that don’t work — rather than change the rules.”
Or in Norquist’s case, just do away with any border/immigration enforcement.
By 2000, according to INS figures, the estimated number of illegal immigrants had risen to 7 million, from 3.5 million in 1990.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836717/posts
Ever hear of a captive audience? I'd like to see GWB do it at a gathering of Republicans, conservatives, or (gasp!)ordinary American citizens.
I don’t remember people being this angry and disgusted since Carter was in office. Frankly, I think this is ten times worse.
Georgia - heh, I would like to see Bush make a speech about comprehensive immigration reform in California
Since we can’t enforce the current law how can anyone believe that by adding more laws they will then enforce? Also what about those criminals that don’t want amnesty?
I tend to agree.
This bill is an insult to Americans.
“Ever hear of a captive audience? I’d like to see GWB do it at a gathering of Republicans, conservatives, or (gasp!)ordinary American citizens.”
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Too afraid or too highfalutin to talk to us ordinary folks...as are most politicians, except at election time.
I’d like to see him explain this bill to, say, a town hall meeting in Hazelton, PA. They would run him out of town on a rail.
Oh sorry. Man! President Bush has lost his...
the White House put Kyl out there today on Michael Medved but I think he was just pissing on a forest fire.
Money quote.
With some luck this bill will be DOA.
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